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UAW leaders plan to meet with Ford Friday, after being taken by surprise by a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump disclosing the firm had shelved plans to move production of Lincoln SUVs from the U.S. to Mexico.

United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams indicated his organization can work with President-elect Donald Trump’s position on key trade issues even though the 81-year-old union supported his opponent and has a long legacy of backing politicians from the Democratic Party.

One of the U.S. auto industry’s best-known figures has extended an olive branch to President-elect Donald Trump by informing him the car maker won’t move a small amount of production to Mexico, the latest effort by a business leader to thaw tension stemming from the incoming administration’s position on key issues, including global trade.

Volkswagen and the United Auto Workers remain on a collision course over union representation of maintenance workers at the car maker’s only U.S. assembly plant after the failure of a meeting on the issue last month.

United Auto Workers leaders are pressing members to ratify a proposed contract from General Motors after a handful of factories turned it down in initial rounds of voting, with union officials saying a costly strike is likely unavoidable if the deal fails.

Volkswagen and the UAW said they will meet to try to iron out their differences, reopening a process that could lead to talks on union representation of the workforce at the car maker’s Chattanooga, Tenn., plant.

The UAW has secured a new labor pact with Fiat Chrysler, with 77% of its rank-and-file workers voting in support of a new agreement that gives factory workers a significant pay bump over the next four years.

The UAW reached a new tentative contract agreement with Fiat Chrysler, averting a strike that would have idled some, if not all, of the auto maker’s U.S. plants. Local UAW leaders will gather in Detroit on Friday to hear the details of the agreement and share them with members shortly thereafter.

UAW President Dennis Williams is facing a membership revolt at Fiat Chrysler and little chance of wringing a richer contract from the auto maker after his tentative deal was soundly rejected by union members.

The United Auto Workers union reached a tentative deal with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV that will eventually remove a controversial two-tier wage system that pays newer hires less than more-experienced co-workers doing the same jobs, according to people familiar with the agreement.

The UAW, hoping to build on a recent membership increases, is weighing a plan to encourage Detroit’s auto makers to add thousands of jobs now done by suppliers. The catch: the salary wouldn’t be great.

The UAW and General Motors have agreed to extend by one week its existing labor contract covering more than 50,000 factory employees, providing more time to resolve disagreements standing in the way of ratifying a new agreement.

Ford Motor has wrapped up its contract talks with the United Auto Workers union, agreeing to a tentative labor agreement largely patterned after a General Motors deal that has yet to be ratified by the rank-and-file.

The United Auto Workers has struck a tentative labor deal with General Motors, avoiding a strike that would have dented the company’s U.S. production and clearing the path for members to vote on the proposal, which sets pay and benefits for the next four years.